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Vespa Product Updates, May 2021
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Vespa Product Updates, May 2021

Advances in features and performance include new int8 and bfloat16 tensor cell types, compact tensor feed format, Approximate Nearest Neighbor using Hamming distance, hash-based attribute dictionaries and case-sensitive attribute search...
Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
20 May 2021
Build a News recommendation app from python with Vespa: Part 3
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Build a News recommendation app from python with Vespa: Part 3

Part 3 - Efficient use of click-through rate via parent-child relationship.
Thiago Martins
Thiago Martins
20 May 2021
Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 1
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Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 1

This is the first blog post in a series of posts where we introduce using pretrained Transformer models for search and document ranking with Vespa.ai.
Jo Kristian Bergum
Jo Kristian Bergum
19 May 2021
Build sentence/paragraph level QA application from python with Vespa

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Build sentence/paragraph level QA application from python with Vespa

Retrieve paragraph and sentence level information with sparse and dense ranking features.
Thiago Martins
Thiago Martins
19 Apr 2021
Vespa Product Updates, March 2021
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Vespa Product Updates, March 2021

Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include mass update/delete in /document/v1/, improved memory usage, OR-to-WeakAnd and better full node protection.

Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
30 Mar 2021
Build a News recommendation app from python with Vespa: Part 2
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Build a News recommendation app from python with Vespa: Part 2

Part 2 - From news search to news recommendation with embeddings.
Thiago Martins
Thiago Martins
29 Mar 2021
Build a News recommendation app from python with Vespa: Part 1
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Build a News recommendation app from python with Vespa: Part 1

Part 1 - News search functionality.
Thiago Martins
Thiago Martins
22 Mar 2021
How to use Postman with Vespa APIs

How to use Postman with Vespa APIs

Interfacing with secure Vespa APIs is easy with Postman. Use Postman collections to template read and write operations to Vespa.

Kristian Aune
Kristian Aune
16 Mar 2021
Run search engine experiments in Vespa from python
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Run search engine experiments in Vespa from python

Three ways to get started with pyvespa.
Thiago Martins
Thiago Martins
12 Mar 2021
How I learned Vespa by thinking in Solr
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How I learned Vespa by thinking in Solr

Learning Vespa in terms of Solr analogies can help flatten the learning curve.
Sujit Pal
Sujit Pal
24 Feb 2021
Parent-child joins and tensors for content recommendation

Parent-child joins and tensors for content recommendation

A real-world application of parent-child joins and tensor functions to model topic popularity for content recommendation.
Aaron Nagao
Aaron Nagao
22 Feb 2021
How Using Screwdriver for CI/CD Reduced Vespa’s Time Spent on Builds and Pull Requests by 75%

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How Using Screwdriver for CI/CD Reduced Vespa’s Time Spent on Builds and Pull Requests by 75%

Introducing Screwdriver for Vespa's CI/CD needs.
Arnstein Ressem
Arnstein Ressem
22 Feb 2021